Romeo and Juliet - IIQ

Romeo + Juliet Worksheet

The masque 1

The masque 2

Now choose one of your favourite Romeo and Juliet's character and create his or her Fakebook page, using the following webtool (you can also work in pairs):

Fakebook

The Game - Part 3 - VJ

This learning path was inspired by the book "The Game" written by Alessandro Baricco.

2008-2016

From App to Alpha Go

The Game

The world where we live

2008 Financial crisis started. The Lehman Brothers collapse.

2008 Spotify - Daniel Ek from Sweden - 9,99 € a month access to 30 millions songs

2008 Apple Store - 500 Apps They cost no more than 10,00 $ or they were even free. In four days people downloaded 10 millions Apps. Nowadays the Apple Store has 2 millions Apps while Google Play has three millions Apps. 

2008 Airbnb (San Francisco)

04/11/2008 Barack Obama was the first Afro-American to become the President of the United States of America

2009 WhatsApp - Jan Koum from Kiev arrived at the Silicon Valley when he was 16; he was very poor and worked at Yahoo together with Brian Acton. They were the second generation of The Game inventors. It was sold to Facebook in 2014 for 19 billions dollars. It is a free App. 

2009 Uber (San Francisco Taxi)

4/10/2009 the 5 Star Movement was founded by Beppe Grillo and an Olivetti programmer Gianroberto Casaleggio - The Digital Democracy through Rousseau started

2010 Instagram - The American engineer Kevin Systrom - It was sold to Facebook in 2012

2011 Apple Cloud

2011 Snapchat - Three Stanford students (Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown)

2011 People used the Apps more than the Web. 

2012 The Digital TV

2012 Tinder

2016 A software developed by Google called AlphaGo (A.I.) played Go and defeated Lee Sedol who was Go World Champion (A software developed by IBM won at chess against Kasparov in 1996)

The Game - Part 2 - VJ

This learning path was inspired by the book "The Game" written by Alessandro Baricco.

From Napster to the iPhone

1999-2007

The Settlement
Conquering the Web

In 1999 a 19-year-old American student programmed a software which made your computer to share your music with other computers for free.  The boy's name was Shawn Fanning and the software's name was Napster. The Napster adventure taught people what the radical wing of the digital insurrection could do. 

2000-2001 the dot.com bubble 

2000 Stephen King published his book "Riding the Bullet" on the internet only. 

2001 - Wikipedia - An Encyclopedia made by its users (Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger; the latter was one of the few revolutionary men of the Silicon Valley to be graduated in Philosophy instead of Engineering).

2002 - Linkedin - Reid Hoffman was the first one to think about Social Networks, in this case for jobs.

2002 - 50% of data + I were digital. 

2003 BlackBerry Quark was on the market. Fhe first smartphone was created and even the first wearable computer (The word crackberry was coined meaning the phone addiction). In 2016 the BlackBerry, a sort of phone Gorbačëv, died, because it started the revolution. 

2003 - Skype

2003 - Myspace

4/02/2004 - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg

2004 - Flickr 

2004 - Tim O'Reilly, an Irish Publisher, coined the phrase Web 2.0 (the passage from consumer to prosumer)

2004 - The TV series "Lost" was broadcast on the ABC channel (that was the turning point in the TV series history)

2005 - YouTube (400 hours of video a minute are uploaded on YouTube) - Chad Hurley and Steve Chen

2006 - Twitter

2006 - YouPorn

2007 - Amazon launched the KINDLE, an ebook reader

9/01/2007 Steve Jobs showed the first iPhone to the world on the Moscone Center stage in San Francisco. It was something new and very different from the other mobile phones just like space invaders was very different from the table-football. It was a small computer which pretended to be a toy. It had the first touch screen of the history. 

In 2007 there were 1 billion and 500 million Internet users, namely 23% of the human beings.

In 2007 there were 172 millions of websites.

In 2007 there were 88 millions of Amazon customers.

In 2007 72% of Americans had a personal computer at home

Social networks and the iPhone changed everything and turned the world and everyday's life into a big game.